Meany Hall for the Performing Arts – Past Concerts near Columbus, OH

Award-winning Turtle Island Quartet delves into the timeless music that has been an integral part of wintertime festivities for centuries.

A beautifully blended vocal trio intermixing multi-faceted music, folk-influenced costumes, and phantasmagoric images.

Beethoven's masterwork Opus 132 is presented alongside five new commissions that look at the subject of healing from historical and cultural perspectives.

Gordon Chin – “Dancing Song” from Three Aboriginal Songs for Orchestra
Franz Liszt – Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S. 124
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

David Alexander Rahbee, conductor
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello

Joseph Haydn – “Haydn Discovery,” String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
John Adams – Selections from John’s Book of Alleged Dances
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in F major, Op. 135

J.S. Bach – Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
Samuil Feinberg – Piano Sonata No. 3
Alexis Weissenberg – Six arrangements of songs sung by Charles Trenet
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Cipressi (Cypresses), Op. 17
Frederic Chopin – Polonaise-fantaisie in A-flat major, Op. 61
Frederic Chopin – Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54

A recital from top students from around the world, under the direction of Professors Robin McCabe and Craig Sheppard.

Schubert – String Quintet in C major, D. 956 (with David Finckel)
Dvořák – Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 (with Wu Han)

A legendary opera star takes the Meany stage to explore traditional spirituals and the writings of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.

Mendelssohn – Selections from Songs without Words
Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade, Op. 35 (piano transcription)
Other works to be announced

Samuel Barber – Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
Bedřich Smetana – Má vlast (“My Homeland”): VI – Blanik
Howard Hanson – Symphony No. 2 “Romantic”
Brendan McMullen – New Work TBA (world premiere)

Beethoven – Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1
Janáček – Quartet No. 1 (“Kreutzer Sonata”)
Dvořák – Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106

Beethoven – Bagatelles, Op. 126
Haydn – Sonata in E-flat major, Hob. XVI:52
Haydn – Variations in F minor, Hob. XVII:6
Julian Anderson – "She Hears" (from Sensation)
Beethoven – Variations and Fugue for Piano in E-flat major, Op. 35 (“Eroica Variations”)

Beethoven – Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, “Pathetique”
Scriabin – Sonata No. 5, Op. 53
Schubert – Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960 (Op. posth)

Bartók – String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7
Trad. / Arr. Danish String Quartet – Nordic Folk Music Selections
Beethoven – String Quartet in F major, Op. 59, No. 1

An exploration of how trauma can go underground in the psyche to direct the course of an individual’s life.

A tragic yet humorous journey through the sex trade, drug use, and excess during the 1980s.

A meditation on perseverance, resourcefulness, and resilience while suggesting the amorphous nature of memory.

Grammy-winning percussionists live-score the beloved Canadian film Paddle to the Sea, the story of a First Nations boy who carves a small wooden canoe and sets out on an epic journey from Northern Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean.